5 Simple Habits Can Help Doctors Connect With Patients Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News 5 Simple Habits Can Help Doctors Connect With Patients Patients feel more satisfied with their care when their doctors take a minute to sit down beside them. But harried doctors often fail to remember niceties like that. All the memorization of medical school seems to crowd out common courtesy, especially for interns just starting to see patients. Read this story A Feud That Lasted A Lifetime: Ariel Sharon Vs. Yasser Arafat From its earliest days to its current state, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can largely be tracked by charting the lives of these arch-rivals. The two played major roles in shaping events, yet the enduring conflict has now outlasted both of them. Read this story When The Right To Religion Conflicts With A Changing Society Nuns sue to avoid contraceptive coverage. A baker refuses to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. These ongoing battles bring into question the scope of the right to religious liberty in America. Where do one person's rights end and another's begin? Read this story Prison Gardens Help Inmates Grow Their Own Food — And Skills From Connecticut to Minnesota to California, correctional authorities are finding all kinds of reasons to produce food inside prison walls. A new video provides a glimpse of one of these projects, a vegetable garden inside San Quentin State prison outside of San Francisco. Read this story A Black Church's Dilemma: Preserve A Building, Or Our Identity? The crumbling Centennial Baptist Church in Helena, Ark., has deep roots in the African-American community. But poverty and other concerns in this Delta town have made raising restoration funds difficult — and the effort to keep the church in black hands has sparked tensions with local preservationists. Read this story more news stories

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